Many plants can be 
(below) 12-15 inch Hemlock 
newly planted, and (right) 
how it looks 8 years later. 
made _ into hedges, 
including the much 
advertised Rosa multi- 
flora, Privets and bar- 
berry (all priced on 
page 7) but Hemlock 
cand Yew are far the 
best of all. The XX 
sizes of hemlock can 
be put in hedge row 
—smaller should be 
bedded two years 
first. 
HEMLOCK HEDGE 
Tsuga Canadensis (Northern Hemlock). 60 ft. Zone Ill. In forests, a 
majestic patriarch, but readily sheared to hedge or modest specimen sizes. 
Humus. Stands shade. The most beautiful native evergreen. 
Hemlock Hedge when properly (25) (100) (1000) 
sheared gives a fine, even, S10 S610 nese een $2.25 $7.00 $35.00 
smooth dark green surface unlike Srt0. 125 iN. eee 4.00 12.00 85.00 
Photo below: Two hedges, any other hedge. Thrives in 4 to 6 in. X 6.00 20.00 180.09 
Poplar and Arborvitae. In soils ranging from ordinary to PUL Nay cee pall iat, Ue es 10.0 5 00 00.00 
another year or two the damp, and from full sun to full 8 to 12 ut Kye 0.00 35. 300. 
evergreen hedge will be big shade, hence is easy to grow. 120318410. bX ee enter 15.00 55.00 490.00 
enough. Then the poplars Set plants 11 feet apart. WERT EN BIO ce coef 18.00 70.00 650.00 
can be cut down. 
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EVERGREENS 
1¥2 Chamaecyparis plumosa S 6 3 med. 
12 Taxus cuspidata (capitata) S 8 4 med. 
l és "nana S 2 2 slow 
2 (spreading) P 3 4 med. 
1¥2 “media Hicksii S 6 2 med. 
1 es "  Kelseyi S 5 3 med. 
1¥%2 Thuja occidentalis * 6 2 med. 
1¥2 Tsuga canadensis S 8 5 fast 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS 
1%2 Buxus sempervirens S 5 3 slow 
UEP ec ”  suffruticosa S l Wo slow 
l " Koreana S l l slow 
2 Laurocerasus schipkaensis P 3 4 fast 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS 
l Berberis thunbergii S 3 3 med. 
23 if i minor S 2 2 slow 
l Ligustrum Ibolium S 5 3 fast 
V2: # ovalifoltum S 6 3 fast 
1¥2 Rhamnus cathartica S 8 5 fast 
1%2 Evonymus alatus compacta S 5 4 med. 
DECIDUOUS TREES 
2 Populus nigra italica —~ 25 5 fast 
2.‘ Ulmus_ pumita S 15 7 fast 
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